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Latest reports (up from January 2023) see below
- 2025-05: Ethiopia / Lalibela: Before the Launch of the Second Eye Treatment Campaign
Project Overview:
Medical needs in Lalibela remain urgent, particularly for preventable and treatable eye diseases such as cataracts, which affect particularly vulnerable populations. Building on the success of its first cataract treatment initiative last month, April, PBF Memorial Clinic is preparing to launch its Second Eye Treatment Campaign, which aims to restore sight and transform lives.
- 2025-05: Ethiopia / Lalibela: Easter Holiday Support, 2025
As one of the humanitarians supports which has been delivered for more than two decades, providing holiday supports to the neediest people continues to be vital.
- 2025-04: Kenya / Nairobi: Education support for Slum Children in Mathare
One World Network. A community organisation registered and operates in Mathare, an informal settlement in Ruaraka sub county of Nairobi we depend on the Peter Bachnann Foundation for all our activities in Kenya.
- 2025-04: Ethiopia / Lalibela: PBF Memorial Clinic started a free cataract surgery campaign
PBF Foundation has contributed to the health sector by providing individual medical cost coverage, community-based health insurance support, and health institution establishment like Gashena Emanuel clinic. PBF Foundation has made a significant impact on improving access to healthcare in Ethiopia.
- 2025-04: Ethiopia / Lalibela: PBF Memorial Clinic is prepared for the first cataract treatment campaign on April 5th
PBF Memorial Clinic has opened for the service and is now fully equipped with state-of-the-art technology to provide top-notch care for patients undergoing cataract treatment. Read more […]
- 2025-04: PBF launched an official YouTube channel for the project documentation
PBF Foundation has provided so many projects in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Sri Lanka, and other developing countries. This initiative was documented and published on the PBF website. Read more […]
- 2025-03: Uganda: Empowering Lives Through Education
I am honored to share a significant milestone in our journey toward inclusive education. Action of Love International has successfully enrolled its first cohort of students with disabilities into secondary education. Read more […]
- 2025-02: Kenya: Donations: PBF accepts and gives both financial and in-kind support for the poor.
Every little donation matters! PBF accepts both cash and in-kind donation for our beneficiaries in Africa. With this support we have built classrooms, done boreholes provided Read more […]
- 2025-01: Ethiopia: A reflection of our work in Ethiopia
January 7th is the Christmas celebrations day among the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. People come from far and wide to Lalibela, the iconic Holy City in the North Wolo region of Ethiopia for Pilgrimage. They come Read more […]
- 2025-01: Ehtiopia / Lalibela: Thirty years later: The PBF Gena celebrations in Lalibela 2025 in a larger context
As we celebrate this important anniversary, the Foundation faces new challenges in an ever-changing world. The Foundation’s goal remains to continue to bring about positive Read more […]
- 2025-01: Ehtiopia / Lalibela: Preparation for the opening of PBF Memorial Clinic makes a special day in PBF history in Ethiopia
Following fourteen months of diligent effort, teamwork, and dedication, the clinic’s construction was successfully completed. The clinic is well-positioned Read more […]
- 2025-01: PBF – a flourishing field. Memories of the beginnings by co-founder Michele Pedrocchi
30 years of the Peter Bachmann Social Work Foundation – a milestone of humanity I actually wanted to go through texts from the foundation’s early days to refresh Read more [..]
- 2025-01: The Bodhi leaf from Sri Lanka becomes the trademark of PBF
Since my highly adventurous journey as a 24-year-old globetrotter overland to Ceylon in 1964, I have been strongly connected to this island in the Indian Ocean. After more than half a century, Read more […]
- 2024-12: Uganda / Teso: Disabled children sleep on mattresses and have blankets for the first time – they experience Christmas
While the whole world celebrates Christmas, PBF enabled the children with disabilities in Teso to celebrate this festival with a smile for the first Read more […]
- 2024-12: Ethiopia / Lalibela: PBF Memorial Clinic construction is fully completed
This week means the last week of PBF Memorial Clinic construction. The clinic will soon be ready to provide much-needed medical services to the community in Lalibela. The construction process has been Read more […]
- 2024-12: Ethiopia / Lalibela: In the vicinity of the PBF Memorial Clinic, impoverished families received immediate rehabilitation assistance
Mergeta Feleke is 80 years old, and his wife, Alemitu Bitew, is 65 years old. They were displaced 2 years ago from Tigray. They are living Read more […]
- 2024-12: Kenya: PBF helps an elderly person whose house burned down
A woman lost her house through fire! This lady is a 76-year-old widow. She lives alone under the mercy of well-wishers, having lost 8 of her children to various diseases. Last month, she accidentally Read more […]
- 2024-12: Ethiopia / Bongo: PBF initiatives are continued for Elephantiasis-infected Manja communities
Manja communities have been the focus of PBF for the past one and half year because they align with the organization’s mission objectives. PBF supported these communities with Read more […]
- 2024-12: Uganda: International Day of Persons with Disabilities
This day is intended to raise awareness of people with disabilities. On this day, the focus is on dignity and personal rights to personal well-being. For PBF, these people, especially young people Read more […]
- 2024-11: Sri Lanka: Reestablishing PBF’s Mission in Sri Lanka
Since the 1990s, PBF (Peter Bachmann Foundation) has been dedicated to uplifting marginalized communities and creating lasting positive change in Sri Lanka. For decades, PBF has focused on addressing the needs Read more […]
- 2024-11: Sri Lanka / Chilaw: The Peter Claver Institute for Mentally Handicapped Children, formerly the Peter Bachman Institute, is celebrating its 20-year anniversary
During our stay in Sri Lanka, we visited one of the PBF sustainable projects of the Peter Claver Read more […]
- 2024-11: Sri Lanka: PBF Support for Anthony Kumar: His Transformation from Handicapped Fisherman to Guest House Owner
Anthony Kumar is handicapped due to the polio virus and lives in Negombo Beach, Sri Lanka. He met Dr. Peter first in 1996 at the beachside of Read more […]
- 2024-11: Getachew Visits Sri Lanka for the First Time
Karu’s Untired Golden Hands, From Nothing to Silver Medalist on Wood Arts. Getachew Sale, a PBF coordinator for Ethiopia, made his first trip to Sri Lanka together with Dr. Peter Bachmann to see PBF projects. Read more […]
- 2024-10: Ethiopia / Lalibel: PBF received a certificate of honor for its support of community-based health insurance
For the past four consecutive years, PBF has largely targeted the sick, the elderly, people with disabilities, women house heads and children who lack access to healthcare Read more […]
- 2024-10: Ethiopia / Lalibela: PBF Memorial Clinic opening date has changed to Gena (Ethiopian Christmas) on January 7, 2025
The conflict surrounding Lalibela and the whole Amhara region makes it difficult to call people for November 17, 2024. We appreciate peoples understanding Read more […]
- 2024-10: The pilgrimage, the Camino, to India and Sri Lanka began 60 years ago
In his personal testimony, Nicholas Nanayakkara describes his decades-long relationship with Peter Bachmann. In 1964, exactly 60 years ago, he reached what was then Ceylon, now Sri Read more […]
- 2024-10: Ethiopia / Durame-Doana: PBF provides school construction and annual stationery support to the destitute children of Durame and the marginalized Fuga community
PBF has targeted destitute and marginalized communities in the past 10 years to provide them with access to education Read more […]
- 2024-10: Kenya / Nairobi: PBF Health Services in the Slums of Nairobi
The AfyaMtaani Team hereby presents a report on the relocation of our Clinic to a new location and the continuation of our Outreach Program in Mathare and Huruma Slums in Nairobi. Relocation Due Read more […]
- 2024-10: Kenya / Nairobi: School is faced with great Dilemma
PBF through the local community based organization One World Network (OWN) supports young boys and girls attending an informal school in the middle of a slum. These children come from single parent families Read more […]
- 2024-09: Ethiopia / Bongo: Shoes for Elephantiasis infected patients
PBF Shoes Support for Elephantiasis infected marginalized Manja tribe. In the last two years, PBF has contributed significant support for the Manja community. Elephantiasis disease and other forms of sociocultural isolation have a significant impact Read more […]
- 2024-07: Ethiopia / Lalibela: Mohammed Mushaga’s touching journey from a village to a master’s degree graduate
The PBF family is celebrating the graduation of our Mohammed Mushaga. He earned his master’s degree in foreign languages and literature from Addis Ababa University Read more […]
- 2024-06: Ethiopia / Lalibela: Reaching out for them to stand on their feet
As part of PBF’s vast humanitarian support, searching for the forgotten and most needy people and enabling them to stand on their feet (apart from getting the basic food) is one of the major tasks. Here Read more […]
- 2024-05: Ethiopia / Bonga: Fountain for the Manja Elephantiasis Rehabilitation Center
The health center for the marginalized Manja tribe opened on October 13, 2023. PBF intervened due to the unusual extent of this infectious disease. We reported on it. The Read more […]
- 2024-05: Ethiopia / Lalibela: Interior Middle Clinic in Lalibela/Ethiopia half financially secured
The history is repeated here: The initiative goes back to a young doctor, Dr Taddese Taye, a nutritionist Getachew Sale, and an experienced health expert, Abebe Zewdu. They founded Read more […]
- 2024-05: Ethiopia / Lalibela: Helping people to help themselves – four current examples in Lalibela
They are current examples of people living in a country like Ethiopia, in a small rural town like Lalibela. Tourism is/was the only source of income for the people there. The question Read more […]
- 2024-05: Switzerland / Wil: Wheelchairs for disabled children in Uganda
On the recommendation of Hans-Peter Hutter, member of the PBF board of trustees, the Catholic parish of Wil SG in Switzerland started a collection on this year’s First Read more […]
- 2024-05: Kenya / Nairobi: Rain and floods: work of the PBF Foundation in Nairobi
The PBF supports various projects in Kenya: a microcredit program for rural women in Kitui and Mathare Sports opportunities for young people in Mwingi and Mathare slum, Nairobi Training Read more […]
- 2024-04: Ethiopia / Lalibela: Support programs for blind students
PBF has been supporting people with disabilities in some East African countries for more than two decades. In Ethiopia, especially in Lalibela, PBF provides regular support for the disabled: direct Read more […]
- 2024-04: Ethiopia / Lalibela: PBF Memorial Clinic construction is progressing quickly, and the opening is scheduled for November 17, 2024.
The PBF Memorial Clinic has started by aiming to provide good health care for the poorest of the poor in the surrounding community. On the other Read more […]
- 2024-03: Ethiopia / Addis Ababa: PBF supports the renovation of toilets and showers in the VDI hostel for the homeless in Addis Ababa
When I visited the VDI retirement center in the middle of the metropolis of Addis Ababa a month ago, I discovered that the main problem was poor hygiene Read more […]
- 2024-03: Kenya / Mbuye: Getachew visit to Mbuye village
Every young individual attend school to achieve their academic aspirations. After students graduate from university, they will be able to choose their paths. Most students want to remain in the city while seeking work. Read more […]
- 2024-03: Uganda: PBF work with People with Disability (PWDs) in North Eastern Uganda – a visit
Action of Love International is Community based organization in Soroti region of Eastern Uganda, Teso Area. This is a remote locality where very little government public Read more […]
- 2024-02: Kenya / Nairobi: Getachew Sale visits Kenya for the first time and reports on his first day
After arriving in Nairobi at lunchtime on Sunday, February 25th, George and Dan met me at the airport and drove me to where I would be staying for two weeks. After some rest, Read more […]
- 2024-02: Ethiopia / Lalibela: Joie de vivre and confidence characterise the everyday lives of the people in the new Laudato Si housing estate
PBF is once again creating decent housing for the underprivileged in Lalibela. It is extremely difficult for the poorest families to own Read more […]
- 2024-02: Ethiopia / Addis Ababa: Challenges at the VDI retirement center
Today, February 12, 2024, I visited the VDI retirement center VDI in Addis Ababa. VDI was founded by Terfa Dinka many years ago in the center of the metropolis Addis Ababa for people who live on Read more […]
- 2024-02: Ethiopia / Lalibela: Roch churches in danger
Rock churches in Lalibela: cracks are getting bigger. The fighting was dangerously close, but rain is the greater danger. Our team in Lalibela is shocked by the report in AfricanArguments on February 7. Mesay and Abebe comment on it in detail, confirming Read more […]
- 2024-02: Making room for the lives of the unhoused/ Laudato village dedication, part 2
Peter said to Jesus: “Lord, it is good that we are here. If you wish, I will build three tabernacles here, one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.” Matthew 17:4 This Read more […]
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2024-02: Laudato Si Community house handingover
PBF has invested for community-centered projects in Lalibela over the past 18 years! Among these activities is building houses using only local building materials and providing shelter to the homeless. The foundation Read more […]
- 2024-02: 30 Years PBF
Dear friends of the PBF Foundation It is with joy and gratitude that we report here as a team on the experiences, challenges and progress of our work with the communities and individuals who deserve and whenever possible receive our support. Read more […]
- 2024-02: The value of health insurance for the marginalized Manja and Fuga communities in southern Ethiopia
Access to healthcare is a natural human need. However, for the marginalized communities of the Manja and Fuga tribes in southern Ethiopia, access to Read more […]
- 2024-01: Ethiopia / Gashena: Comprehensive major event: eye treatment in January
Our quarterly eye treatment in our clinic in Gashena took place from January 5 to 7, 2024. The turnout was enormous and met a great need. The meeting was planned for 70 to 80 patients, Read more […]